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	<title>Musician Matters&#187; Simon</title>
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		<title>Creating MP3s with Audacity</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have just downloaded Audacity and are wondering how to export your file as an Mp3, wonder no longer&#8230; Audacity does not export files to Mp3 format without the LAME encoder. This encoder is also free to the public and can be downloaded here: http://lame.sourceforge.net/ Once you have downloaded the files place them in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editing sound files in Audacity</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Audacity is a free audio editing program that will serve many of your needs while remaining a relatively simple program to learn. What this is useful for: Extracting selections of audio from a larger/longer audio file to use in a presentation in Powerpoint, on a website, use in an exam etc. Go to http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Sight-Reading Music, Practice Doesn&#8217;t Make Perfect</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A memory skill that pianists have little control over may orchestrate their performance. // Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:50 AM ET Content provided by Bruce Bower, Science News THE GIST Sight-reading is the ability to play sheet music on an instrument with little or no preparation. Having a strong ability to remember pieces of relevant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>String Quartet Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swiss Global announces their competition for use of &#8220;The Evangelists&#8221; St John St Mark St Matthew St Luke &#8220;No dents!&#8221; Laurent Marfaing remembers noticing when he was first presented with St Matthew in April 2008. The description was perhaps fitting, as the viola had been &#8220;sleeping&#8221;, completely unheard, for at least 35 years. St Matthew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improve your playing&#8230;fast.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my lessons with the undergraduate students here at Yale I find myself repeating a few core ideas many times. Perhaps one of the most common suggestions I make to students is to... slow down.]]></description>
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